Google Posts Project Tango Tablet Signup

Developers can now sign up to be notified when Google starts selling its Project Tango Tablet Development Kit this summer.

Google presented a preview Thursday of its Project Tango Tablet Development Kit, an upcoming seven-inch Android tablet and associated software for creating apps that can track motion and map surroundings in three dimensions.

Project Tango is a product of Google's Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group, which used to be part of Motorola Mobility. It's an attempt to arm mobile devices with processors and sensors for creating 3D models of local environments in real-time.

In a Google+ post, the Project Tango team said the tablet had been created in collaboration with Nvidia to take advantage of the chipmaker's new Tegra K1 mobile processor. Capturing and processing real-time maps of proximate objects demands high-performance silicon.

Beyond its Nvidia chip, the Project Tango tablet comes with 4 GB of RAM, 128 GB of storage, a motion tracking camera, an integrated depth sensor, WiFi, BLTE, and 4G LTE (where available). The tablet will be offered for $1,024, a price chosen for its significance to programmers -- that's 2^10 in decimal notation and 10000000000 in binary notation.

>> Google presented a preview Thursday of its Project Tango Tablet Development Kit, an upcoming seven-inch Android tablet and associated software for creating apps that can track motion and map surroundings in three dimensions.

After using Nexus, I do not think Google should spend its time wasting resources on hardware. Google, they do software but if they have the same team that made Nexus leading this, they will not make progress. Nexus is terrible and simply not a good product. It is very strange that it came from Google.

>> Looks like we are going to see all sorts of 3D modeled objects online in future.

Yes, soon, we may be unable to know what is real and fakein this work. It will be from virtual reality to real reality! The evolutions in these technologies are happening so fast and I am truly surprised on the speed of adoption.